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T.O.M.B. - Macabre Noize Royale


Artist: T.O.M.B.
Title: Macabre Noize Royale
Country: USA
Catalogue number: TTR 023
Released: 24 July 2008
Format: CD
Running time: 40:58

1. The Inauguration
2. Immitis
3. Shaare Moth
4. Brazen Endurance (MP3)
5. United by Blakk Blood
6. Fog Ritual
7. Macabre Noize Royale
8. The Proclamation
9. Tempus Eversionis (MP3)
10. Bleed Bitch Bleed (MP3)
11. I Dine on the Tongues of Hypocrites
12. ABLANATHANALBA
13. Christening of Demons

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Description

T.O.M.B. is a mysterious, unnamed entity well known for crafting the darkest noise recordings with the aid of nothing but field recordings. With Macabre Noize Royale, T.O.M.B. has set out to push the boundaries further than ever before.
To collect the field recordings T.O.M.B. travelled and trespassed through Pennsylvania’s darkest landmarks including:
Bethlehem Steel Works – builder of large calibre guns during WWI and WWII
Eden Hall Church – 157 year old gothic church destroyed from arson
Laurel Hill Cemetery – 170 year old cemetery
Lambertville High School – students burned alive 30 years ago, site of countless suicides since.
Each location has a disturbing history and they have become locations of multiple ghost sightings and unexplained deaths.

Through these field recordings, smashing recording rods into massive steel structures and ancient crypt doors, T.O.M.B. reawakens the decaying structures and the agonizing history they hold sealed.
The recordings are then crafted into the darkest, heaviest BLACK NOISE ever recorded. And for the first time full Black Metal / Industrial tracks have been created.

Macabre Noize Royale is T.O.M.B.’s most diverse album by far. Integrating pure noise with ambience, Industrial and Black Metal. The clear intention is to push the boundaries of Black Noise sound manipulation and continue to shock the listener (both fans and newcomers).

Chosen Musicians who contributed to this Occult Recording Consist of:
OBSCURE MANIFESTO (Engorge)
JOSEPH GORSKI (Deteriorate)
ALEX BOUKS (Goreaphobia)
JAY ANDERSON (Deteriorate, Zahgurim)
THOROUS (Deteriorate)
MIKE TRUSH (Deteriorate, Necrotion, Sil Veth)
JOSEPH GULD (Deteriorate)
VED ROCKE
RUSS GALE (Hazarax)

Recorded between November 2002 and September 2007 at various locations in New Jersey and Pennsylvania USA. Studios include: Helvete, Sound War, Satans Palace.

Reviews

“Holy Fuck!” That’s all I could say after listening to this album for the first time. After flipping through the latest batch of CD’s Heathen Harvest sent me I was immediately drawn to the striking cover art of this album, and after reading the press release info that was included I was instantly throwing it into my stereo. This is the first full-length album by T.O.M.B. (Total Occultic Mechanical Blasphemy), taking just under five years to record. How it was recorded though is where it really starts to get interesting. Several illegal spots were chosen (Bethlehem Steel Works, Eden Hall Church, Laurel Hill Cemetery, and Lambertville High School), all of which have nefarious histories of death, arson, and destruction. Large steel rods were brought to these spots and used to beat out the pounding rhythms and ambient sounds that worm their way through the extremely lo-fi and layered black metal found through out the album. Check out this video to check out some of what went on in during the recordings. It seems like one man is behind the ideas and direction of the album, bringing in a slew of musicians to flesh out the “songs“.
The first track “The Inauguration” sounds almost like power electronics with deep sub-pulsing bass and field recording ambience laying the foundation for some throat-slitting vocals. Instantly you are thrown from the electronics heavy first track, into the pure black metal filth of the second song “Immitis”. While there are some more “normal” sounding black metal songs through out the album, rest assured that each one of them is full of filthy noise, heavily effected vocals, and a lo-fi “room ambience” production quality.
The guitars are heavy, straight forward, noisy as fuck, and just a little sloppy. The drumming is tight and lightning fast (no triggers here!). Songs like the sixth track “Fog Ritual” are my favorites. These combine the field recording aspects, power electronics like noise, and some unique bass heavy, doom laden black metal (is that a fucking amen beat I hear!?!). All in all this is a really unique band with a wide variety of ideas offered in the span of just 40 minutes. Always an unrelenting atmosphere, and full of hate. Highly recommended!
- A.Q., Heathen Harvest